Discover The Mysterious Tattoo Art: Runic Tattoos

Posted on October 27, 2008
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Discover The Mysterious Tattoo Art: Runic Tattoos

According to the Nothern legend, the God Odin by name possessed the knowlege of runes, for which he sacrificed himself. The legend says, he has pinned himself to the ash tree of peace “Igdrazil” with a holy spear and spent there 9 days. The word “rune” itself does not mean “letter” or “sign“, but means “secret“.

A runic sign connects its keeper with the egregor of the Northern Gods, lit with the thousand-years polar lights. The egregore of Vikings would not stand for lies and double-dealing.

You should never thoughtlessly put runes together or rewrite runic spells. And offcourse I strongly recomend you NOT to tattoo yourself the runes you don’t know! This could be as dangerous as a drunk tank driver!

Here are some good runic tattoo ideas for you:

Thor Mjolnir’s Hammer - you may use these runes in case you need a protection. This runic sign is simple, but rather strong.

In case you want to increase the power of a spell, you may unite the runes, make them look more compact. For example, here is the rune for deeply understanding the truth:

The names of Scandinavian Gods have an amazing power too. You may get a tattoo of an animal connected with Odin (eagle, wolf, crow, horse or snake) and place his name written in runes nearby:

One more name for you to use is Tyr. He is the God of law & justice and likes rational way of thinking. I would recomend this rune to people with a high IQ level:

Thor is a god of unswerving loyalty and honour. He is a defender of humans. I would recomend his rune to somene with a srong personality:

And here are some very storng united runes patterns for you: (From left to right: Long life, Good Luck, I exist, Constant Success, Power of mind)

P.S.: You should know that once you’ve decided to get a runic tattoo, you shall have a glass of beer standing in front of you during the process as a gift to Odin (you may dink it yourself afterwards) and mentally prepare yourself for the contact with Gods!